rick.ca beat me to it
When I close the program and then open again it goes back to its original view, the look I am after is if you right click on playing now it gives the option to edit playing now in action window - I want to keep this this way, any ideas
Sorry that is the only way to do it but there is another way to have the Playing Now window open all the time.
1) Tools > Options > Startup > Startup Location
change the "Location" to "Last Location"
2) View > Split View > Show 2 Views
This should split MC into 3 parts...
1) tree & action window
2) view 1
3) view 2
If you don't see the 2nd view look to the right edge of MC and look for 2 triangles. Clink the bottom triangle, this should make the view pop out. If it doesn't drag the mouse to the triangle until you see <-->. Now click and drag the view out.
You should also try the tab option in View > Split View
